John de Graaf’s Special Place in Hell

He’s a guy I had on my radio show last year who turns out to be a flaming liberal; no that would be an insult to flaming liberals, I think this guy is a drooling communist and may have a sociopathic psychological disorder.

Neil M. Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program of the Treasury Department, has said that the Administration “made a series of decisions that may have substantially contributed to the accelerated shuttering of thousands of small businesses and thereby potentially adding tens of thousands of workers to the already lengthy unemployment rolls…[B]ased on a theory and without sufficient consideration of the decision’s broader economic impact.”

Okay, to me this is big news. A democrat writes a story about a member of the Obama administration (Neil Barofsky) who says the same thing I’ve been saying for over a year — Obama’s anti-business polices are the reason why the economy is in the tank. He has frozen small businesses hiring and that’s the engine that creates new jobs in America.

Anyway, this is the sort of thing I research and post on a regular basis. I’m not interested in what Glenn Beck or Ann Coulter say about Obama, but when one of his own guys say ” Obama is the cause of the recession” — that’s big news.

The “Special Place in Hell” Facebook Thread

Anyway, all is well with this post and then this pinko de Graaf comments citing the controversial CBO report that says that the Stimulus “saved or created” 1.4 to 3.3 million jobs.

That’s when all hell broke lose (if you’re a facebook member, you can read the entire debacle by clicking hereand if you’re not a facebook member, it might be worth becoming one just to read this verbal exchange).

The back and forth between John and I speaks volumes about the mental state of the far left. I made my case that Obama and his policies were destroying the economy with solid 3rd party facts and John responded with name calling and insulting my intelligence.

Then he said:

“… the amazing thing is that you call yourself a Christian and show no empathy for the poor–the “dregs” if you will, while defending the exploiters. You and Glenn Beck. If there is a hell, God must have a special place in it for hypocrites.“

John de Graaf — A Human Parasite or a Sociopath?

Lefties like de Graaf claim that all businesses are evil, even though they create all the wealth in the country to employ workers and pay the taxes that enable government workers to enjoy their fat paychecks.

Finally, de Graaf stated that he only earns $25,000/year and “lives lightly on earth,” as if somehow this makes him part of the solution. As I pointed out to John, he pays no taxes, invests nothing in developing the technology he uses every day and now wants the rest of us to pay for his healthcare — yet somehow I’m the hypocrite.

de Graaf and people like him make a living “biting the hand that feeds them.” To me they are nothing more than human parasites that seek out people who actually produce wealth and suck whatever they can from them by whatever means they can.

They rationalize this (in their sick minds) by demonizing anyone who is successful in the private sector as evil and greedy. Once they dehumanize the producers in society, they feel absolutely self righteous in using any method possible to steal from the private sector and “spread the wealth” to those who did nothing to produce it (like him).

To me, this type of behavior is sociopathic.

What Would Jesus Do?

How do I know? We didn’t have businesses back in the day. We did have wealthy people and Jesus spoke quite a bit about the importance of people working hard. If that work resulted in the creation of wealth, he taught that we should share the fruits of our labor with the needy. Obviously, Jesus would frown on crooked businessmen and people who horded their wealth, failed to tithe, and failed to help the less fortunate.

But how would he feel about people in 2010 who use their God given ingenuity to create a new product or service that improves the quality of life for others? How would he feel about people who create a business around these ideas and hire other people to work there and thereby improve their lives by paying them a salary? How would he feel about a nation that was built on this idea and developed it to the point where their poor enjoyed the highest standard of living of any poor segment on earth?

“Poverty in the United States, in an absolute sense, has virtually disappeared. Today, there’s nothing remotely resembling poverty of yesteryear. However, if poverty is defined in the relative sense, the lowest fifth of income-earners, “poverty” will always be with us. No matter how poverty is defined, if I were an unborn spirit, condemned to a life of poverty, but God allowed me to choose which nation I wanted to be poor in, I’d choose the United States. Our poor must be the envy of the world’s poor.”

Again, I don’t know what Jesus would do in today’s economy, but I tend to believe that he would like the way the United States and honest businesses have created “something worth sharing” and generated jobs that lift up the standard of living of the poorest people in America (not to mention funded the billions we hand out in foreign aid).

The Liberal Model of Christianity

Jesus was absolutely clear about the importance of giving. It wanted “those that have” to give and to give freely as the Holy Spirit filled their hearts. He celebrated the poor woman who had nothing and yet donated her few pennies to the Church more than the wealthy many who shared his harvest, but he made it clear that he appreciated both. Clearly, before you can give something away, you have to earn it.

Now let’s contrast that with the lefty model for wealth redistribution:

1. It does not involve anyone “giving freely;” the wealthy have no say in how much they pay or where their money goes and 51% of the people give (pay) nothing.

2. People who pay no taxes vote for politicians who the take money from other people (who probably didn’t vote for them) and give it to people who either voted for them or fund their political campaigns.

3. A very large portion of the money collected by liberal politicians does not go to the needy, it goes to government workers, bureaucrats and government unions; unions who in turn make 92% of their donations to the democrats who gave them the government jobs using money forceably taken form the people who actually earned it.

Sorry, but I see nothing in the liberal model of forced redistribution of wealth to the government class that would make Jesus happy. In fact, I think there might be a special place in hell for people who use the power of the government to take from others and fatten their own pockets.

And if there is, it will have a warm place for John de Graaf.

Dave

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It is very frustrating. You can’t argue with stupid.
That Obama’s approval rating is in the tank doesn’t surprise me. What continues to surprise me (and what worries me about the future more than anything else) is the number of people who still think he is doing a good job.

Great discussion on the biblical model of generosity Dave! It’s especially interesting to see it tied into American capitalism, and how those can intertwine if our hearts and motives are in the right place.

Richard writes, “It is very frustrating. You can’t argue with stupid.”

Very true, but the problem is that your remark applies primarily to Dave. I must say, though, that Dave’s demented obsession with de Graaf is amusing, to say the least. It’s been a while since I read something so bilious that I could almost feel the spittle flying out of the monitor. Anyway, thanks for the laughs.